tof · tambourine

What it means

tof (תֹּף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “tambourine”.

A small hand drum.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A round skin instrument struck by hand at celebrations.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• tambourines ×9
• tambourine ×8

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×2
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Genesis 31:27

  Why did you secretly flee, deceive me, and not tell me? I would have sent you away with joy and with songs, with tambourine and with lyre.

• Exodus 15:20

  Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.

• Judges 11:34

  Jephthah came to Mizpah, to his house, and there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dances. She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.

• 1 Samuel 10:5

  After that you will come to Gibeah of Elohim, where are the garrisons of the Philistines; and it will happen, as you come there to the city, that you will meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place, and before them harp and tambourine and flute and lyre, and they will be prophesying.

• 1 Samuel 18:6

  And it came about, as they came, when David returned from striking the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel to sing, with dances, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments.

• 2 Samuel 6:5

  David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before YHWH with all kinds of instruments of cypress wood, with lyres, with harps, with tambourines, with sistrums, and with cymbals.

• 1 Chronicles 13:8

  And David and all Israel were celebrating before Elohim with all their strength, with songs and with lyres and with harps and with tambourines and with cymbals and with trumpets.

• Job 21:12

  They raise their voice with the tambourine and lyre, and rejoice at the sound of the flute.

• Psalms 81:2

  Raise a song and sound the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.

• Psalms 149:3

  Let them praise his name with dancing; with tambourine and lyre let them sing psalms to him.

• Psalms 150:4

  Praise him with tambourine and dancing; praise him with strings and flute.

• Isaiah 5:12

  And there are lyre and harp, tambourine and flute, and wine at their feasts; but the deeds of YHWH they do not regard, and the work of his hands they do not see.

• Isaiah 24:8

  The rejoicing of the tambourines has ceased, the uproar of those who exult has ended, the rejoicing of the lyre has ceased.

• Isaiah 30:32

  And every passing of the appointed staff that YHWH lays upon him will be with tambourines and with lyres; and in battles of brandishing he will fight against them.

• Jeremiah 31:4

  Again I will build you, and you will be built, virgin of Israel; again you will adorn yourself with your tambourines, and go out in the dance of those who make merry.

• Ezekiel 28:13

  In Eden, the garden of Elohim, you were; every precious stone was your covering: ruby, topaz, and diamond, chrysolite, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald, and gold; the work of your tambourines and of your settings was in you; on the day you were created they were prepared.

And 1 more times.